McARTHUR | Documentary delayed – Hold Your Fire

Toronto, ON, Canada / Talk Radio AM640

Posted: January 21, 2016 01:14 pm

One day before it was set to air on CBC, the documentary Hold Your Fire was pulled from the line-up.

The film is produced by Helen Slinger and a section of Slinger’s film deals with the Toronto policeman, James Forcillo’s shooting death of Sammy Yatim on a TTC streetcar on July 26, 2013. CBC chose to pull the documentary in fear it may impact the ongoing jury trial.

In her doc Slinger filmed a sequence in which she showed the Yatim shooting footage to a UK policeman, and his shocked reaction to it was very revealing….and damning